The second of the new educational challenges is digital education. Educate yourselves on how to humanize digital spaces, making them into areas of fraternity and creativity, not cages to trap yourselves in. Don’t let the algorithm write your story! Be the authors: use technology wisely, but don’t let technology use you.
New post: "Make Worse Software, Slower"
This is not satire.
I argue for:
– Rejecting functional programming
– Using ORMs to perfectly hide impedance mismatches
– Skipping event sourcing
– Other proven best practices
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Season 3 Episode 3 of The Office (US), "The Coup". Michael is livid, Dwight is 'manager' and everyone wants to quit.
"Oh, I'll be fine ."
"Do you have any savings?"
"No, no I don't."
"You might lose your condo."
"I won't! I won't."
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